Baby Grand

“A stylishly structured and poetically described family tale… elegantly written.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS Lila Grand, born Lina Granatelli, faces an unbearable choice when Willie Burke, the love of her life, tells her that her baby daughter, Gloria, can’t live with them in Manhattan after they are married. Pressured by Willie, her family and her priest, Lila gives in, and Gloria is taken by Lila’s mother across the river in Brooklyn. When World War II begins, Willie is stationed in California and takes Lila with him. A year later, Lila’s mother dies, and a distraught Lila allows her brother and sister-in-law to take Gloria to St. Louis as their own child. When Willie finds out he is sterile, he persuades Lila to go to Court to take back Gloria, now eight, who believes the brother and his wife are her parents. Can Lila’s determination win Gloria’s love?

3 fast-paced thrillers packed with nail-biting suspense, heart-thumping action, and a cute baby. ** From award-winning, best-selling author Dina Santorelli ** BOOK #1: The trilogy begins with the award-winning, best-selling BABY GRAND! ✓ #1 Political Thriller ✓ #1 Kidnapping Thriller ✓ #1 Organized Crime Thriller ✓ Runner-up, Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition ✓ Honorable Mention, Genre Fiction, Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards New York Governor Phillip Grand’s infant daughter disappears without a trace from her crib. Hours later, newly divorced and out-of-work writer Jamie Carter is abducted by a dark, handsome stranger in a crowded New York City park. Jamie is whisked upstate, where she is forced to care for the kidnapped Baby Grand in a plot to delay the execution of mobster Gino Cataldi. Alone and on her own for the first time in her life, Jamie must figure out a way to escape. But with this sweet child’s safety on the line—and in her hands—can she find a way to outwit her captors before they kill them both? BOOK #2: The story continues with BABY BAILINO, the book that Newsweek called “a fun, taut, well-written thriller”! ✓ Finalist, National Indie Excellence Awards ✓ A Newsweek Favorite Book BOOK #3: The explosive series finale, BABY CARTER! >>> If you love unexpected twists and page-turning plots, check out a sample of the Baby Grand Trilogy box set or buy now!

Late at night, the children in the neighborhood of the old and abandoned Wellington house hear eerie strains of music that seductively lure them into the horrors of the haunted house

She thought he was dead. But when her daughter finds an explosive device at the White House, will he be the only one who can keep them alive? When a bomb is discovered in the White House during the first year of Phillip Grand's tenure as president of the United States, press secretary Jamie Carter takes her daughter, Faith, to the one place she believes to be safe—an address in Wyoming given to her years before by reputed mobster Don Bailino. Bailino—thought to be dead by just about everyone, except recently retired FBI special agent Paul Wilcox—has been laying low out west for more than three years, but is propelled out of hiding to protect the woman he loves and the daughter he's fathered. Will Bailino be able to keep them safe from this new threat? Or will Wilcox finally get his man? Can Jamie and Faith ever stop running? The explosive finale of the Baby Grand Trilogy!